Motivational Quotes

Competition

The game isn't over until it's over.

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Competition

Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.

Johnson, Patti

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

Becker, Boris

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Carnegie, Andrew

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Tarkenton, Fran

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Landry, Tom

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

Riley, Pat

Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

Gladiator's Salute

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Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

Hamill, Dorothy

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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb, Indian

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you.

Falcon, Joe

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I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.

Penick, Harvey

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When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Shoemaker, Willie

17.

When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Witt, Katarina

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How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Holtz, Lou

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These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Orpen, Robert

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I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

Hogan, Ben

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there.

Gandhi, Indira

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If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

Smith, Dean

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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

Kennedy, John F.

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I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Cauthen, Steve

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The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Sampras, Pete

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I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit.

Mansell, Nigel

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The Law of Win Win says, Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.

Anderson, Greg

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When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Martin, Jerry

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You get out in front -- you stay out in front.

Foyt, A. J.

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For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes -- not that you won or lost -- but how you played the Game.

Rice, Grantland

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When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

Sayers, Gayle

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The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

Geus, Arie de

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.

Ross, Ruth

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One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

Rapoport, Anatol

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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Lamb, Charles

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The weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.

Saying

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Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

Saroyan, William

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I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.